O Sacrum Convivium (2012, rev. 2025)

Choral: SacredMotets
Written By Tobias Wolf

SATB

Duration:
5′

First performance:
3 November 2013
King’s College Chapel Choir, David Smith, King’s College, Aberdeen, UK

Score

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Programme note

O Sacrum Convivium is a setting of the famous text of St Thomas Aquinas expressing the profound mysteries of the Eucharistic miracle. It is designed as a companion piece to my previous setting of Aquinas, O Salutaris Hostia (2008) and treads similar ground both aesthetically and harmonically. Akin to many settings of this text, the general tone is one of serenity and repose but my setting has more ‘grit’ then others suggesting the ‘memory of his Passion’ to be more disturbing than others may suggest.

PAC

Recording

Tobias Wolf

Tobias Wolf is a photographer, musician and artist based in North East Scotland. With a background in conducting, composition and hybrid media, his creative practice has long been shaped by an interest in atmosphere, structure and the relationship between sound, image and place. Photography has been a lifelong companion — a way of slowing down, noticing light, and finding quiet meaning in everyday scenes.

https://www.tpwolf.com
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